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bdow

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Registered: Yesterday

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What DE do you prefer to use on Devuan?

I'm running freia, migrated from forky quite recently, the random crashes i have no idea what they even are happening somewhat often, which was also the case on forky. Would you recommend any DE else? If so, please tell me about it!

Have a good one, thanks in advance. X3

Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 274  

Re: What DE do you prefer to use on Devuan?

Using an experimental / development platform does have its hazards. I don't think the DE will make much difference. But I have tended to prefer Cinnamon. It's closer than XFCE is to the Windows desktop nearly everyone is used to, and lighter weight than overly fancy things like KDE.

delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 295  

Re: What DE do you prefer to use on Devuan?

Random crashes are unusual and probably pointing to a hardware problem.

That was the case on my first computer, which had a defective cache-RAM-module. At the time, it was sitting in a dedicated slot for a tiny amount of faster RAM. Crashes were completely unpredicteable - time span between 15 minutes and a few day.

Since then, I tend to "reconnect" (pull out and press in again) RAM modules, when strange things happens.

DE:
Still on LXDE - just works for me.